How do I get Composer to download the latest commit in the master branch from GitHub for a package?

Question

I am trying to get Composer do download the latest commit for the Behat/MinkSelenium2Driver package. That particular repo only has a master branch. I have tried every method I c

Answer 1

For my case, all the 03 suggested solutions above from @Sven didn't work. This was my solution in case someone still struggling on a similar context.

• remove existing usage if you have it composer remove the_vendor/the_package_name

• If you have access to the package repo, create a 1st tag for it (eg: 0.1.0)

git tag --annotate 0.1.0 --message "Initial version 0.1.0" 
git push origin 0.1.0

Note: Each time you update your package repo, pls attribute a new tag (eg: 0.1.1) & make composer update the_vendor/the_package_name on main app to update the composer.lock

• If you don't have access to the package repo, pick existing tag version (not dev-master)

• require it from main app composer require the_vendor/the_package_name:^0.1

from master